The races of black, yellow and red......when did
God create them? Ham who wasn't black, so how could the race of Ham be black if he
intermarried with a black? Wouldn't that be a diluted race?

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God obviously delights in variety and
beauty. Why is our sky a beautiful blue, but the sky on the moon black? Because God
created this planet to be inhabited, and He wanted us to enjoy the beautiful colors here.
Isaiah 45:18 says, "For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself
that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, HE
FORMED IT TO BE INHABITED: I am the LORD; and there is none else." We are told by man
that it is our atmosphere that takes the blue wave length of light and makes our sky look
blue to us here. Is Gods favorite color blue? If so, then why did He make the grass
and leaves on the trees green? What about the clouds? Why did He make them white? Why did
He make the bark on the trees brown? Why did He make the dirt brown? Why did He make the
sunset red and orange? Why did He make the leaves turn yellow, orange and red before they
fall off of the trees in the fall? Why did God make the rainbow a variety of colors all in
one? Why is the foundation of the heavenly city New Jerusalem not going to be gray cement,
but a dazzling array of a variety of gems? Revelation 21:18-21 says, "And the
building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear
glass. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of
precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a
chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh,
chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the
eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls:
every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were
transparent glass." The answer to all of the above? God loves beauty, and a variety
of colors.

The same holds true of mankind which He created. From the two people
which He created, He programmed into their genes an infinite variety of possibilities and
colors. Some conceptions between two people would produce blond hair; others brunette; and
others red. Is there one color that is right, pure, and not diluted, and all the others
wrong? Was it Gods will to have only one color hair on people? Do you know what
color that would then have to then be? Revelation 1:13,14 says, "And in the midst of
the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the
foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. HIS HEAD AND HIS HAIRS WERE WHITE LIKE
WOOL, AS WHITE AS SNOW; and his eyes were as a flame of fire." It would have to be
white  as white as snow.

But what do many people do when their hair starts to change color? They
start dying it. Millions of people do not want gray, silver, or white hair, so they keep
coloring it blonde, brunette, red, or a combination somewhere in between those colors.

It is part of the curse that we are blonde, brunette, or red-haired?
Did God really want all people upon earth to have white hair all of their lives? Was that
His perfect will? The darker a persons hair is, is he/she more under the curse than
a lighter-haired person? If that is the case, then brunettes are more under the curse than
are red-heads. And that would make blondes more spiritual than any other people upon the
face of the earth, other than their elders, of course, whose hair has turned silver or
white.

That is
not the case at all. The Bible never condemns young people for having colored hair (other
than white). Proverbs 20:29 says, "The glory of young men is their strength: and the
beauty of old men is the grey head." Hair color does not make a person more or less
spiritual. It states the fact that the glory of the young man is his strength, and the
beauty of the old man is his gray hair. The Bible does not compare their hair there, but
totally different attributes that differ with age.

The whole point is, "Why do people associate the color of the skin
with the curse placed upon Ham and his descendants?" You did not specifically ask
that question, but it is appropriate to answer it at this point, because that is why many
people do question skin color in relation to Ham. Why are we not consistent with all of
our "color differences" in the body?

Are dark brown eyes part of the curse? Are light blue eyes more
spiritual than dark brown? Are hazel eyes more spiritual than just green or just brown?
Are any traits in the body that are "darker" (than what Adam and Eve had)
automatically part of the curse? Where does it say in the Bible that the color of the skin
was darkened on people as part of the curse? It never does say that.

If that was the case, then European people would be more spiritual than
the Jews, because the Jews tend to be darker than the Germans. Remember what Hitler
thought? He considered the Jews to be "less than pure" when compared to the
lighter and fairer complexions of the Germans. So what was his idea? To kill all other
people (darker than they, the Germans) and produce a "pure" race (of lighter and
fairer complected people).

It is surprising how many Christians actually think that darker-skinned
people are all under the curse of Ham, and are really less spiritual and less blessed of
God than are fairer-skinned people. That attitude is not from God.

So back to your question, "The races of black, yellow and
red......when did God create them?" He "created" those varieties of colors
when He created Adam and Eve. That is when He "created" them.

The other, unasked question that probably should be asked is,
"When did God allow those colors to come out, flourish, and multiply?" That
answer is "With the dispersion at the Tower of Babel." Genesis 11:1-9 says,
"And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as
they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they
dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them
thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go
to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make
us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came
down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said,
Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and
now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go
down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's
speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and
they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the
LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD
scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."

Those people were dispersed, of course, according to the language that
God allowed them to speak and understand. God, in His wisdom, gave certain languages to
certain people. He wanted certain people together, and those were the ones to whom He gave
the same language. Remember, this does not mean that some languages are "cursed
languages" and others are not. If that was the case, then how could God have given
the Old Testament in Hebrew, the New Testament in Greek, and do a world wide mission work
mainly from English-speaking people today? Why would He not consistently use the "one
approved language," and curse the others? Yes, Zephaniah 3:9 says, "For then
will I turn to the people a PURE LANGUAGE, that they may all call upon the name of the
LORD, to serve him with one consent." You will notice that the context calls it a
"pure language," because, finally, everyone will be able to understand and serve
the Lord with the same language "with one consent."

When
God gave certain languages to certain groups of people, he obviously did so by design. As
those people were forced of necessity to associate with certain people (because they were
the only ones with whom they could communicate) they then married within that small group,
and their dominant colors and traits then came out. And those traits probably multiplied
very rapidly when marrying others with the same dominant colors and traits.

Think of a family that you have seen with children that all have very
distinctive features. Because of it, people quickly guess that they are of a certain
family because of those distinctions. Maybe they have a very distinctively-shaped jaw, or
a very distinctively- shaped nose, or very distinctive lips, or maybe it is something
about the eyes that sets them off as a family.

Now suppose that you change that families language so that they
cannot communicate with anyone else upon earth. You send them off to a region where they
are alone, and they are forced to intermarry. Now, wait for several generations, and go
visit them. What will you find? You will find a whole group of people that, although you
can tell them apart, have very distinguishing features that lets you know in a moment that
they all belong to the same group. They all have that same basic jaw shape. They all have
that same basic nose. They all have that same basic complexion. They all have those
same-shaped eyes, etc.

That is exactly what we see amongst the different races of the world.
Is it just the color of the skin that sets off the Japanese from the Americans? No. The
shape of their eyes is different. Is it just the skin color that sets off the African from
the European? No. The Europeans nose and lips will probably be thinner and smaller
than the Africans. What about the Jew compared to the American Indian? Not only will
their skin color not be the same, but the Jews cheek bones will probably not be as
high as the Indians, nor will their eyes have the same shape and slant.

So the real question is not "when" did God create all of
these colors and features, because He did so when He made Adam and Eve. In their genes
they had all of these possible varieties. The real question is, "when" did God
allow those colors to come out, flourish, and multiply? That answer is "Immediately
following the Tower of Babel."

God had purpose and design in giving people who spoke different
languages very distinctive features. For one thing, it has kept them basically apart for
all of these centuries now (yes, different races do intermarry today, but it is still not
the normal practice). Man could have learned the languages of other nations, eventually,
and could have been all one, big, rebellious family against God again  just like at
the Tower of Babel. But when God separated them by language, He also allowed other
features to quickly come out that would help to keep them apart. I do not think that the
different skin colors and features have anything to do with some being more cursed than
others. I think it has everything to do with Gods desire to keep the peoples
of the earth somewhat separate from each other. Because God knows that when the earth gets
all together, they will end up rebelling against Him.

That is exactly what is going to happen in the end time. There is going
to be a "one world church," a "one world government," and a "one
world philosophy"  all against God. It is going to be a world-united church
against the one true way of salvation through Jesus Christ. It is going to be a
world-united government that will stand up against the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. It
will be a world-united philosophy that true Christians are "bad, narrow-minded, and
the true problem upon earth."

The different races are intermarrying more and more today, but through
the differences in language and distinctive features, God has kept them basically apart
until their final day of worldwide union and rebellion against Him.

You asked "Ham who wasn't black, so how could the race of Ham be
black if he intermarried with a black? Wouldn't that be a diluted race?"

As I
mentioned earlier, God had all of the possible colors and features programmed into Adam
and Eves genes. And as I said, I do not know that the curse upon Hams
descendants has anything to do with skin color at all. And, as I also said, it would not
have been with Ham that the different races started, but with the rebellion at the Tower
of Babel.

According to Websters Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary,
"dilute" means "to diminish the strength, flavor, or brilliance of by
admixture." If you want to talk about a point at which the different races were
"diluted," then you are going to have to look at some point AFTER the Tower of
Babel, when someone finally broke out of their group (meaning their group to which God had
given a certain language and certain dominant physical characteristics) and intermarried
with another group or race. How many years that was after the Tower of Babel, I do not
know. But those groups or races would have been "pure" until one of them
intermarried with another group or race.

As you can see, Ham really has very little to do with the
"race" question, when dealt with from the Biblical perspective. In fact, the
Bible refers to a group of people as being of "Ham," and their skin is not black
at all, but very similar in complexion to the Jews. Psalm 105:23-27 says, "Israel
also came into EGYPT; and Jacob sojourned in THE LAND OF HAM. And he increased his people
greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies. He turned their heart to hate his
people, to deal subtly with his servants. He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had
chosen. They showed his signs among them, and wonders in THE LAND OF HAM." This
passage calls Egypt, "the land of Ham." The Egyptians are not black-skinned, but
just dark-complected. Some of them would be no darker than many Americans. So to say that
Ham was black, or that all of his descendants are, is not true at all. So once again, we
do not know that black skin has anything at all to do with the curse upon Hams
descendants.

When it comes to skin color, I think it has more to do with the
God-given ability to adapt to certain climates, and those people whom God sent to those
places with certain dominant genes, to make it very pronounced. Where were the very
dark-skinned people or races found (before man started hauling them out of their settling
places, where they had been since the Tower of Babel)? The darkest-skinned people were
found nearest the equator  in the hottest climates. Take a world map and find the
equator on it. Look at Africa. Right above and below the equator is Nigeria, Zaire, Kenya,
etc. What color is the skin of those people? Normally, very, dark. But look up to the top
of Africa, and what countries do you see? Libya, Morocco, and Egypt. Those people are, for
the most part, just dark-complected, not black. Look down into South Africa. There are so
many white people there, that they had been the ruling class for many, many years.

Now follow the equator over to South America. It crosses through
Brazil. Are the Brazilians black-skinned? No. We would probably say that they are
mainly just dark-complected. But in some of the little countries just above Brazil, they
do have a good number of black-skinned people. What is the difference? Temperature is the
difference. Many of the South American countries have many mountainous regions, which,
although they are close to the equator, the higher elevation would keep them cooler than
the lower elevations that are near the equator.

What is the whole point? The darkest-skinned people are generally found
in the hottest climates. God had, by design, people move to those hot locations (at the
dispersing of the Tower of Babel) to whom He had seen fit to receive certain dominant
genes that would help them be more comfortable there. Can you imagine a very light-skinned
group of people moving to the very hot areas near the equator? What would happen? They
would be burnt to a crisp all summer long. Some people burn a little when they first go
out in the sun, but then tan, and eventually, can stay outside all day in the hottest sun.
Why? Because God allows the skin to turn darker so that it does not burn. But some very
light-skinned people can go out in the sun and burn one day, and then peel. They go out
again, and the same things happens. They just do not seem to tan and get past that point.
God did not send people to those areas which could not adapt to such climates. He sent
people there with certain dominant genes who would adapt very well to such hot conditions,
and their tendencies of very dark skin would serve them well in such hot, sunny climates.
As I said, the further north or south you get away from the equator, the light-skinned
people normally are. I cannot see any Biblical proof that black skin is part of the curse
upon Hams descendants.

In summary, once again, God placed all of the possible
skin colors and characteristics into Adam and Eves genes. When man multiplied upon
the face of the earth after the flood, and became as one, man rebelled against God. To
stop that rebellion, God confounded their language so that they could not understand each
other. When He broke them down into smaller groups and they then married among themselves,
He allowed certain things within their genes to come out in a dominant way. Those dominant
things would help them in two ways. First, it would help them to keep to their own group
or race, and thus be less apt to get together and rebel against God again. And second,
some of those dominant traits would help them be more comfortable in their climates where
they settled.

And now, for a little humor on what can be a touchy subject. I worked
in a pharmacy when I was in Bible College. One of the pharmacists happened to have black
skin. He was very kind to me (he was a pharmacist, and I was a lowly delivery man). One
day he said to me, "I cannot figure out why white men call us
colored." It is the white man that is "colored." He said,
"When you get tanned, you turn brown. When you hold your breath, you turn purple.
When you get cold, you turn blue. When you get mad, you turn red. When you get injured,
you turn black and blue. When you get sick, you turn green. When you are faint, you turn
as white as a sheet." He continued, "But with us, we are just always black. It
is the white man that should be called colored." You know what? He was
right!